Harvey Milk High School

Harvey Milk High School opened in 1985 as the first public school in the United States created for LGBT students who had been bullied or pushed out of mainstream schools. It grew out of the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, founded in 1979 by Dr. Emery Hetrick and Dr. A. Damien Martin and later renamed the Hetrick-Martin Institute. The school still shares quarters with the institute at 2 Astor Place. It is named for Harvey Milk, the New York-born activist elected in San Francisco and assassinated in 1978. This is a working school, so view the building from outside only. Astor Place is on the NoHo-East Village border, not the West Village.